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| First Back-To-Back Executions in 50 Years |
| By leadercall.com |
| Published: 05/19/2010 |
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JACKSON — Mississippi corrections officials prepared Tuesday for the first back-to-back executions in nearly 50 years. Paul Everette Woodward was to be executed Wednesday at the State Penitentiary at Parchman for the 1986 rape and shooting death of 24-year-old Rhonda Crane of Escatawpa. Gerald James Holland was to be put to death Thursday for raping and killing 15-year-old Krystal King in 1987. Holland is the oldest death-row inmate in Mississippi. The last back-to-back executions occurred in 1961, according to Mississippi Department of Corrections records. Howard Cook was executed on Dec. 19, 1961, and Ellic Lee was put to death the following day. Both had been convicted of rape and died in the gas chamber, which was replaced by lethal injection in 1998. Read More. |
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It is unfortunate for the victims that it takes so long for justice to be served.